a three hundred year old or more bonsai

....at ritsurin garden takamatsu-shi japan/

Beautiful old garden tree, but it's not a bonsai.

Russell Coker wrote:Beautiful old garden tree, but it's not a bonsai.

Is it not????


Some Japanese must have ground planted the "bonsai" there to thicken up the branch, but forgot to dig it up again.

oh i see, but the curator there tell us its a bonsai,,it was a 17th century tree owned by the emperor,,,according to them there's a palace here at ritsurin garden way back 17th century

i think it is a bonsai set free.

you could think of 'bonsai' as a tree trapped in a pot - this one was let out

i think a styled tree in the ground has another name that one of the clever ones will let us know...........

Huge old trees like this one, is from time to time collected in the mountains, or fieldgrown....In China we saw it big times.... It looks to me, like the this tree is growing on a slab....big, but a bonsai....tre in pot

Kind regards Yvonne

Maybe part of Jolly Green Giant's collection or a rare/long lost style ..." Actual Size Style "

Whatever you call it Sancho , it is an inspiration.
Wish I was there

Niwaki is the word for trained japanese garden trees.

I've seen that tree. It is a marvel to see it "in the round."

Jim, could you tell if it was planted in the ground or on a slab as Yvonne suggests?
It is an inspiring tree! Wow!

I'm sure it was planted in the gro9und, but after so many years it makes no difference, anyway. In the winter, the branches are wrapped in straw.